Trailer revealing Martin Clunes in ‘Downfall of Huw Edwards’ will send shivers down your spine
The first look trailer for Martin Clunes’ new series about the downfall of disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been released.
The factual drama explores how a ‘vulnerable 17-year-old was groomed by one of the most powerful figures in television’.
Starring Doc Martin’s Martin Clunes as Edwards, the series explores the newsreader’s double life ‘as it begins to spirals out of control’ before he ‘announces his total exit from public life after his conviction for serious child sexual offences’.
For two decades, Edwards – who was one of BBC’s highest paid presenters – fronted the News at Ten where he he announced the death of Elizabeth II and covered the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla.
However, in July 2023 the presenter was suspended after allegations of sexual misconduct against him were made public.
Although the South Wales Police and the Metropolitan Police found no evidence of criminal conduct, he was hospitalised soon after and resigned in April 2024.
Three months later, however, police announced they’d charged the presenter with three counts of making indecent images of children, which included a child as young as seven, and receiving 41 illegal images from a convicted paedophile over WhatsApp.
After pleading guilty, Edwards, who is now 64, was then given a six-month suspended jail sentence and placed on the sex offenders’ register.
In a press release from Channel 5, the series is also believed to delve into how he was ‘repeatedly soliciting explicit sexual photos from young men, and in particular grooming a vulnerable 17-year-old’.
As well as that, Edwards ‘had also struck up a separate online friendship with a man who, from December 2020 to August 2021, repeatedly sent him messages containing child abuse imagery which he accessed, including so called ‘Category A’ images – the most extreme’.
The current working title of the new two-part Channel 5 drama is ‘Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards’.
This comes after a former boss at the BBC cautioned Channel 5 over their upcoming drama.
Roger Mosey, who previously headed up TV News at the broadcaster before leaving in 2013, said that ‘drama would not e my preferred route of looking at this’.
Suggesting that Channel 5 will ‘rapidly run into legal problems’, Roger told Times Radio that a ‘documentary approach’ might be more appropriate.
He told radio hosts Jane Garvey and Fi Glover: ‘Dramas involving living people are always very risky. A documentary approach seems to me to be completely legitimate and right and you should have the right to investigate.
‘But as we saw, you remember Steve Coogan’s film made about Richard III… once you start doing a narrative in a movie of good guys and bad guys and who did it, you can run into legal problems really very, very rapidly.
‘Drama would not be my preferred route of looking at this.’
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards is coming to Channel 5.
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